Author's Notes: WARNING NON-CON. Happy Hallow's Eve! Hopefully this gets published in time for the spooky season! If not, well, belated treat!
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"I hear that if you walk across the Witch's Graveyard at midnight, her spectre will come and show you the worst, most horrifying, scariest thing of your life. I can't believe I listened to them," Darla, 23, said as she stepped over the gnarled root of a nearby tree. She waved her phone around, the flashlight shining the light around to illuminate her path. "But, if you can get through it, you'll be granted untold riches and desires." She said in a mocking voice. "What a crock of shit."
She looked down at her screen, seeing the messages and reactions that were coming in from her watchers and followers of her livestream. "Well, at least I have you all to keep me company. I've got plenty of battery. I think I'm about halfway through here by now." Messages popped up on her screen.
"You can do it!"
"I bet she'll wuss out."
"No way it's real."
"Is she actually doing this?"
"Show us your front cam!"
Darla rolled her eyes and shook her head. It wasn't easy being one of the most popular girls at school. Hell, she should have been at a party anyways, impressing Timothy Grene with how far her legs can bend; But no, she was here, taking some dark and long forgotten path in the forest in the middle of the night on a stupid challenge. If it weren't for her friends showing her the $20,000 reward for video proof of the challenge and the Witch's, she wouldn't even be out here.
"This money had better be worth it," Darla said as she steeled up her resolve to keep pressing forward. She clutched her lavender sweater tighter around her as the wind blew her platinum blonde hair backwards. "I hope you're watching Blake. This is for your money."
"Get that witch!"
"Damn, must be cold."
"We're all watching."
Darla spun around quickly on her heels as she heard something stir behind her. She pointed her phone toward the source, only to see a small squirrel running around. "Ugh! You freaking scared me! Get out of here!" She shooed away the squirrel before turning back on her path. "Well, everyone, we're now about thirty minutes into the Witch's Challenge, and so far, not a single witch in sight. I better still get my money if there's no witch."
The chat filled with more supporting messages, along with the occasional messages that were about her showing off her body. Normally, she would go for it, but it was just too cold, and to be honest, she was too scared. She just wanted to go back, get her money, and get a nice hot shower.
"WHAAA!"
Darla planted face first into the ground, having not seen a tree root that caught on her right foot. There was a loud SPLAT as she landed into a puddle in the ground. Her sweater was absolutely soaked on the front with a large brown stain in it. Mud had splattered onto her cheeks and up her arms as well. Her phone had, thankfully, avoided the puddle and landed on the ground nearby, screen down.
She got her foot free and turned the camera to herself, showing everyone what just happened. "UGH! I fucking tripped and fell in this puddle and, Blake, you are fucking paying for my dry cleaning!"
"Oh shit that looks bad."
"Wet t-shirt contest!"
"Oh Blake is a dead man."
"Lol"
Now, she was utterly furious that she was even colder, with her sweater no longer providing any warmth. She groaned and kept moving forward, trudging along and thinking even more about the shower and the money. "And that dry cleaning is not coming out of my reward mon- Oh shit!"
Ahead of Darla was a small light in the distance. She turned her camera towards it, but the forest was too dense to see what it was. She turned off the light and slowly moved closer towards it. "Guys, I think I found something."
"Oh shit"
"What's going on?"
"Is she in a forest?"
"Where she?"
"I'm going to get a closer look." Darla slowly inched closer and closer towards the light, growing in size, but not moving. As the brush became less and less dense, she began to see what was the source of the light.
In a medium sized clearing was a small cabin with the lights on. It looked to be made from trees nearby and smoke was coming out of a chimney. It was probably about the size of a shipping container, so decently livable. Vines had grown up the side of it and there was a decently sized garden in the backyard that looked to have various different plants and flowers growing.
"There's a house out here?" Darla asked as she crouched down, trying to get a closer look. She zoomed in closer with her camera as she began to approach it.
"No way she found it"
"Witch gonna get her."